I thought he started his work on a coarse diamond abrasive plate to do his chip repair, and then moved to wetstones from there.

The knife being repaired is a Deba, which is designed to break down large fish. It is made with fairly thick stock to allow the blade to cut through the spine of a large tuna or similar fish. They can get crazily sharp with proper sharpening, which makes them suitable for filleting as well.

They have an Aliso Viejo C&C that’s in the same general area, but they restrict entrance to a handful of marques for anything newer than (I think) 1975. They’ve been having issues with sound and dickish driving lately, which is a big part of what shut down the Irvine event, so we’ll see how long that lasts.

It went down swinging at least. There are worse ways for a car to go.

I, and my AW11, agree with your sentiment. This is mostly due to the fact that I can begin to afford a lot of the cool stuff from the ‘80s. The ‘70's never really spoke to me, the ‘60's stuff is either way too expensive or rusted away to nothing, and everything earlier than that is all style over substance. The ‘90's…

+1 on “Aerospace Grade” being a BS marketing term. I also hate “Military Grade” as a term, as it means just as little. As it turns out, the military has many grades for many different applications. So does Ford. So does every other large manufacturing corporation.

I take it you’ve never ridden a motorcycle in a full-face helmet. You can smell everything when you’re rolling because the air flows through the helmet and right past your nostrils. That’s spectacular when you’re riding through a blooming citrus grove or a pine forest but it’s considerably worse if you’re stuck behind…

You’d be shocked at the amount of overlap in those two groups. This just gives us Caterham-loving Enginerds an excuse to buy legos. We had them as kids, now we can afford them as adults.

I need this in my life!

If you’re losing the bar forward and didn’t set your pins correctly you’re probably a beginner, and you should probably drop your weight and build your squat up with good form. If you don’t do this, you’ll almost certainly hurt your back when you start handling any heavy-ish amount of weight. Doing more deadlifts and…

I’m totally worth you there. You’re not going to be competitive your first time out (or second, or third). I don’t even worry about it, I’m there to personally improve, and have fun. If I finally start to actually seem to know what I'm doing, that's when I'll worry about being competitive in my class.

I had a great time at my last Autocross in my ‘86 N/A AW11 running Falken RT615K tires on stock triangle 14" wheels. Staying at or above 200 TW keeps you in a reasonable class to where you don’t have to drop multiples of the car’s value to be competitive, STS is a fine place to be.

I Autocrossed a bone stock Mazda 2 on the crap OEM All-Season tires. I had a ton of fun. Sliding a slow car around is a great time, every time.

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They did, 60 years ago. It's called the 7. Caterham still makes them and you can buy it as a kit.

The gif in the lead spot reminds me of sliding our Baja SAE car around every corner we could find back in college. Anyone that enjoys this kind of driving and will be attending a university with a Baja team would do well to check it out. They’ll probably let you drive the car very early in your Baja career and you can…

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In the video he mentions that he was using one of these, and popped up behind the wave relatively unscathed.

The guy that rolled the truck is *literally* the builder. He does what he does, and he does it very well. If it’s not your thing, don’t buy one (though it’s probably out of your price range anyway).